What is your judgment? is to be understood as the request for a formal decision of the court. Compare, for example, “What is your verdict?” (New American Bible, Barclay, Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch, Phillips) and “What is your decision?” (An American Translation). Good News Translation‘s “What do you think?” is perhaps too informal.

They are the entire Jewish high court, including the “scribes and elders” of verse 57. The use of direct discourse in the pronouncement of the death penalty (“He deserves death”) contrasts with the indirect discourse of Mark 14.64 (“And they all condemned him as deserving death”). Deserves death means “deserves the death penalty,” as the context makes abundantly evident. In place of the noun death, Good News Translation employs the verb phrase “must die.” It is clear, of course, that the reason they say he deserves death is because they find him guilty. In some languages this will have to be made explicit, as in Good News Translation: “He is guilty and must die.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .